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10m Dome in Kuwait

10m Dome for Kuwait University

Third SPECULOOS 1m-telescope installed at Cerro Paranal, Chile

SPECULOOS — The Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars —
is a project of Belgian's Université de Liège,
sited at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama desert.
Telescope No. 3 has just been installed.

First SPECULOOS 1m-telescope installed at Cerro Paranal, Chile

“EUROPA” is the name of the first one installed in its ASTELCO 6.2m-dome.
It will be followed by three more telescopes with 1m aperture, all to be installed in 2017.

SPECULOOS — The Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars — is
a project of Belgian's Université de Liège, sited at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama desert (there is a sister project in the northern hemisphere to be built soon). Its mission is to detect terrestrial exoplanets around nearby ultracool stars — of spectral type M7 and later — and brown dwarfs. The facility at Paranal, called the SPECULOOS Southern Observatory, comprises four robotic telescopes of Ritchey-Chrétien design, each with a one metre primary mirror and cameras that are highly sensitive in the near-infrared. The telescopes are named after four of Jupiter’s moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.

The COATLI 50cm telescope with a diffraction-limited fast-guiding imager aims to provide 0.3 arcsec
FWHM images from 550 to 900nm over a large fraction of the sky.
The telescope and enclosure were installed at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional
in Sierra San Pedro Mártir, México, during 2016.

60cm Prototype telescope for SAT-COM

50cm Coelostat for Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung

Used for calibration of satellite equipment, this Coelostat
uses a new design to eliminate the manual corrections during the day.
This ASTELCO Coelostat can track the sun all-day long without manual
intervention.

0.86m robotic equatorial telescope

ASTELCO has installed an 0.86m High-Precision Telescope at Cerro Tololo / Cerro Pachon Observatory, Chile.
It is used for wide-field applications and is the "sister telescope" to the 86cm telescope located in Spain.

Prototype for ESO Laser Guide Star Telescope (Laser Lanuch Telescope)

60cm Robotic telescope for exo-planet search, Morocco

This new 60cm equatorial telescope with NTM-500 is another node
in the network of telescopes dedicated to the search for exo-planets
and for the study small bodies of the solar system.
It is located in the Oukameiden Observatory in the High Atlas mountains in Morocco.
The telescope is part of the TRAPPIST network.

Seeing Monitor with Tower in La Chira, Chile

60cm Robotic telescope for exo-planet search, Chile

This new 60cm equatorial telescope with NTM-500 is the first node in the TRAPPIST network of telescopes dedicated to the search for exo-planets and for the study small bodies of the solar system.
It is located in La Silla in Chile.

1m Alt-Az Telescope for Tenerife

Two 1m robotic telescopes

These twin 1m Robotic Telescopes at Mt. Entoto Observatory, Ethiopia are being used for scientific research as well as for public outreach.
One of the telescopes is equipped with
a high-resolution ASTELCO Echelle spectrograph.

1.2m telescope and dome for Saudi Arabia

1.4m robotic Alt-Az telescope in Greece

The 1.4m Constantine Caratheodory Robotic Alt-Az mounted Telescope for the Hellenic Naval Academy and the National Centre for Astronomy "EUDOXOS" in Kefallonia,
Greece has been installed on the island of Kefallonia.

The telescope will be used for Quantum Optics Experiments in conjunction with Satellites, Quantum Astronomy studies as well as Time
Domain Astronomy, especially Gamma Ray Burst follow-up and long term monitoring of variable sources.

1.2m telescope in Canakkale, Turkey

ASTELCO has installed a 1.2m Telescope for Canakkale University, housed in a new building at Ulupinar Observatory.
On one of its two focal ports, the telescope uses
a high-resolution ASTELCO Echelle spectrograph.